Ted Kennedy, Workhorse Lawmaker

http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2009/08/politics_ted_ke.php

Kennedy’s career could have been a cautionary tale for our current president, who might not have found himself in quite the fix he is in at the moment if he’d followed Ted’s example, bided his years, spent more time in the trenches doing the unglamorous work of legislating and taking the hard punches that must be taken to sell the product to the public, learning how the system works, why it works and who makes it work. Most of the changes Ted Kennedy made in this nation over his career were change for the worst – but he did, over time, make real change because he worked at it instead of just saying the word “change” and hoping it would be so.

I mean, they more they alienate the GOP, the better for the GOP and not just from their own political perspective but that of the country. A little while ago, on my own little blog, I made an observation that is sort of in the nature of an epiphany.

As long as the GOP stays the “party of no” they’re no longer providing cover for their Democratic brethren/sisters and the more light is shed on what is really going on in the nation’s capitol. IOW, they can’t melt into the shadows anymore.

that the emperor has no clothes, or substance, or basis in reality, or …

But he notes that people still like him personally. Gotta love it. I guess it will start to sound something like,

Obama? I like him as a dude, but man, what’s up with all that other truly bad stuff the Right keeps bringing up man? He’s cool, he’s righteous. Why can’t they get along with the guy even if he hasn’t done anything good?”